Byzantium Quizzes

Byzantium Quiz Vocabulary, Form, and Literary Devices

1 What does the word "mire" most closely mean?
Tower

Center

Ocean

Muck
2 Who is Hades?
The Greek god of the underworld

A famous patriarch of the early Orthodox Church

An Egyptian pharaoh

The emperor who founded the city of Constantinople
3 What type of stanzas make up the poem?
Tercets

Octaves

Quintains

Sestets
4 What does the word "begot" most closely mean?
Possessed

Tricked

Understood

Created
5 What is the poem's form?
Sonnet

Villanelle

Sestina

It does not follow a traditional form
6 Which type of meter are most of the poem's lines written in?
Iambic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter
7 What does the word "superhuman" most closely mean?
Animal-like and instinctive

Possessed of unusual or magical powers

Extremely human-like

Very large
8 What is the meter of the line "breathless mouths may summon"?
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic trimeter
9 What does the word "bobbin" most closely mean?
A type of ballroom dance popular in the early 20th century

A multi-story Ottoman mansion

A despotic ruler, especially in the ancient world

An implement used in sewing and weaving
10 What does the word "shade" most closely mean?
Tent

Ghost

Curtain

Night
11 What does the word "singe" most closely mean?
Monkey

Opera

Burn

Clean
12 Which objects are personified in this work?
The domes

The bobbin

The marbles

The moon
13 What does the word "smithies" most closely mean?
Members of the royal court

Metal forgeries

Narrow alleyways

Rivers to the underworld
14 What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?
ABABCBCDC

ABABCDCD

AABBCDDC

ABBACDDC
15 What is the meter of the line "Fresh images beget"?
Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic pentameter

Iambic trimeter
16 The line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow" contains an instance of what?
Metonymy

Personification

Simile

Metaphor
17 What does the word "flit" most closely mean?
Equivocate

Hide

Blink

Dart
18 What is the meter of the line "Can like the cocks of Hades crow"?
Dactylic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the word "gong" most closely mean?
A meter that Yeats made up and used in his poetry

A wormlike creature from Greek myth

An instrument that can be struck to make a ringing sound

A type of Byzantine church
20 Which of the following phrases is not alliterative?
"Night resonance recedes"

"mire or blood"

"cannot singe a sleeve"

"moonlit dome disdains"
21 Which best describes the poem's conflict?
It is a conflict between the speaker and the shade

It is a conflict between spiritual and physical existence

It is a conflict between the Emperor and his soldiery on the one hand, and everyday citizens on the other

It is a conflict between the Byzantine and Persian empires
22 To which of the following does Yeats frequent allude in this work?
Ottoman history

Celtic legend

Easter Orthodox theology

Greek myth
23 Which of the following words is an instance of onomatopoeia?
trance

bough

none of these are onomatopoetic

singe
24 The phrase "mire and blood" is a synecdoche representing what?
War

Family

The physical world

The spiritual world
25 How many stanzas does the poem contain?
2

3

4

5

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